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King Digital's Gaming Crown Tarnished by Fickle Subjects

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Dan Gallagher

Aug. 13, 2014 3:19 p.m. ET

In videogames, even new platforms can bring the same old problems.

Companies such as King Digital and Zynga are learning that anew. For all the changes that have swept the business in the past few years, videogame makers face the same existential challenge of how to keep an audience coming back for more, hoping past hits will fund new ones.